Confessions of a Sleepwalker

[Samuel Moyer]

What song writer spends 10 years or more to write a single song... or album
of songs... constantly revising and reworking them.. researching details
.... and is willing to let the work stand on its own without a tour?

I have always liked Dire Straits and REM... but it is nonsense to compare
them with TRP...
Though... like ZZ Top and Lionel Ritchie... he copies himself quite a bit...

The Automaton figures into V. in several chapters and also into Mason and
Dixon...  Zoyd jumps through glass windows... and in V. a sailor stands
before a plate glass window deciding when to scream "Geronomo," before or
after he breaks through.  V., GR, and M&D explore the Herrero or Native
South Africans anyway... (maybe the Herrero isn't mentioned in M&D)... how
about Space and Time...  a big issue in all novels as are young girls.

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: <sam at zeppomusic.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Confessions of a Sleepwalker


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> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 sam at zeppomusic.com wrote:
> > The vaulting, lucent chaos of GR has what, exactly, to
> > do with the bland, turgid, middle-of-the-turnpike
> > songwriting of REM? I'm not saying Buck didn't read it,
> > I'm saying I don't see any Pynchonic echoes WHATSOEVER
> > in any of REM's material, even the decent stuff.
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> I agree. Well, maybe the "Imitation of Life" *video* is
> a bit more, hmm, raucously rickety than the rest by REM.
> There's just this "hunting Pynchon mentions" fixation on
> the pynchon-l - as you may have noticed already, may not
> - that I'm by no means exempt from, is all. To make things
> worse, afaik, am guilty of bringing the infamous "Knopfler
> sez M&D is great" quotation to the list, too. And if REM
> is light years away from GR, "Sailing to Philadelphia" and
> M&D don't even belong to the same galaxy.
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> Blakeanly,
> Heikki
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